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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1925
Page
8
US Department of Agriculture notes no serious shortage and warns against overproduction of spring wheat. Flax supply lags demand while other crops show adequate balance. Chicago hosts six day bicycle race with notable rider mentioned.
Des Moines Feb 10 two Iowa senate resolutions debated federal aid. Brookhart led opposition condemning aid as wasteful and high tax cause while Cavanaugh promoted aid as beneficial for highways and state programs. Senators argued aid distribution fairness and policy.
Warren J Lincoln, a Geneva lawyer and floriculturist, was sentenced to life for murdering his wife and her brother. He burned their bodies and embedded their heads in a concrete block. The verdict found him sane now, though insane at the time of the crime. only two jurors wanted the death penalty. Lincoln and his son cried as the verdict was read.
Six thousand laborers at the Naigai Wata Kaisha cotton mill in Shanghai stormed the plant, assaulting and driving out Japanese managers and overseers. Furniture and machinery worth about 30000 dollars were wrecked. Police found two Japanese severely injured and others with minor injuries. guards were posted at Japanese mills. Strikers claimed overseers beat workers with knotted ropes.
Governor Hammill told a Grace Methodist Episcopal banquet crowd that work ennobles and sustains nations. He urged citizens to earn their bread by the sweat of their brow and emphasized that no good government lasts without ambition and progress.
Miami Fla Feb 10 The executive council of the American Federation of Labor considered the resignation of James Duncan its first vice president and discussed plans for a conference to settle the Coal River collieries strike with no indication of a decision date.
International News Wire from Tokyo reports Japan has completed scrapping ships required by the Washington arms conference treaty. Fourteen ships have been scrapped since 1923, with the Tosa sunk Monday. A vice minister of the navy told the diet the department does not view U S Pacific maneuvers as a threat and denied claims that Japan’s navy is now stronger than America's.
A three man robbery at Booneville Savings Bank ends with one wounded and captured, two suspects detained as the Hoyldup fails. Harold Layton of Des Moines is critically wounded from four shotgun blasts while C C Cook and a taxi driver witness and help secure the scene. Oliver and Lampman, both Des Moines residents, flee but are soon captured or identified.
In Tsing Tao China February 10 the Kainshaw Tsinan railway halted as railway workers protested the discharge of 200 personnel under Shantuns administration. Merchants backing a boycott aimed to drive out administration forces from the rail line.
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President Coolidge rejects a unified air service as urged by Brig. Gen. William Mitchell, deeming aircraft vital but not yet essential to a combined service. Congress faces criticism from Mitchell over naval defense handling as House naval affairs backs Wilbur and aeronautics officials, while omitting Mitchell’s name.
New York awoke under the heaviest fog in years with ferry riders late to work and elevated trains in crashes that cost two lives and injure three. Harbor ships moved cautiously as the fog slowly lifted, while unusually warm mid February air lingered.
Des Moines reports noisy opposition before the Senate Wars and Means committee to any minimum standard for gas sold in Iowa. Independents say a standard would grant monopoly to Standard and Sinclair and that two digest companies can make any grade while smaller dealers must buy on open market, risking inconsistent quality. A separate note from Sidney, Iowa, states a steel bridge over the Nishna River on the Waubonsie trail was swept away by an ice jam, causing about 46,000 dollars in damage.
In Marseilles on February 10, nearly 100 people were wounded or bruised when communists tried to break up a Catholic party meeting led by General Gas telenag Nere. Hospitals and patrols added casualty numbers, and Socialist mayor Senator Feres banned public meetings indefinitely amid Catholic tensions over police protection.
Des Moines Feb 10 Assistant Attorney General Ferbert Hough said he would file suit in Polk county district court against former State Treasurer W J Burbank and the Central Trust and Savings bank to recover more than 300 000 dollars of public deposits the treasurer could not turn over to his successor The suit is one of three involving public deposits totaling over 1 006 000 dollars not turned over to State Treasurer Johnson when he took office on Jan 2 Also to be sued are Mechanica Savings and Commercial Savings banks with Burbank personal sureties and corporate securities providers named as co defendants
Chicago, Feb 10. Jury selection in the W E D Stokes case faced delays as evidence gathering stretched into a second week. Only a four member venire existed as a nucleus for the panel with two more tentatively accepted but subject to challenge until the full second panel is sworn in.
Fifteen armed men in five automobiles raided a Chicago railroad warehouse early today and forced warehouseman Dan Kelleher to aid their escape. They fled with 46 barrels of wine valued at about $12,000, belonging to the Italian Vineyard Company, after holding the man at gunpoint to operate the elevators.
Des Moines clothiers predict a red fashion trend for 256 exhibitors at the annual convention opening here today and running through Friday. The color is described as gleaming and brilliant for both men and women’s attire this year.
Charles M. Thatcher aged 76 from Zearing Iowa was instantly killed in Mobile Alabama today after falling from a house roof.
Washington, Feb 10 reporter's trial testimony on gallantry in the Spanish American War cites Rice W Means Colorado and others. Floyd Collins in Sand Cave near Cave City Kentucky remains alive as of Feb 10 with respiration around 14 to 16 per minute. Military court of inquiry adjourned for lunch. Miller and Fishback testified that rumors and threats were by friends rather than enemies.
The Kelly postal pay and rate increase bill cleared the House today and goes to the Senate. Rep. Ramseyer objects to fourth class rate revisions and favors nonpolitical study of second class rates while the bill preserves pay raises and projects about 61 million dollars in revenue with higher salaries. Speaker Gillett announced passage by viva voce vote without a roll call as a substitute for a Senate measure that the House had refused to consider.
Josephi Willams a Black porter for the State Bank of Wellston was held up on a city streetcar in Louis Missouri today. He was beaten and robbed of $7600 as three men fled. The incident occurred in the streetcar line serving Wellston a suburb of the city.
London reports Parliament opened with a scramble for preferred seats in the Commons. Bud Astor took a coveted desk early, as MPs rushed for chairs and hats, while domestic matters dominated the day and former premier Asquith moved to the Lords over a title dispute.
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